Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 2 | The rarity of artefacts found during excavations of such farms not only affects the archaeologist 's ability to date the buildings , but also makes it extremely difficult to understand the details of the activities carried out on the farm . |
| 3 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 4 | Goodenough 's group confirmed that the emotional content of dreams could be affected by pre-sleep stimulation ( in this case , a film entitled subcision — explicitly showing a series of operations carried out on the penis as part of a tribal aboriginal initiation rite ) . |
| 5 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 6 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 7 | Dimetrodon and other dinosaurs padded about on the surface of the Coal Measures which were bent up into the great hump-like structure , or anticline , of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 8 | But Hunt said that if the race were officially started and the cars lined up on the grid , he would have no choice but to race . |
| 9 | Meredith was sitting in the stalls with his feet propped up on the row in front . |
| 10 | There is a gem in the Heraklion Museum showing two rampant lions with their forepaws perched up on an altar : at the centre , in place of a pillar or some other representation of the deity , is an unmistakable rayed sun which , as we have already seen , is one of the manifestations of Poteidan ( Figure 44 ) . |
| 11 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 12 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |
| 13 | I had some notes jotted down on a card somewhere , but I quickly went off them and chatted about whatever seemed interesting . |
| 14 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 15 | But often boats moored up on the river tend to blend into one another , but these three boats are completely separate , separated , they do n't overlap each other at all . |
| 16 | I , personally , have the number of days pasted up on the inside of my locker . |
| 17 | Laboratory experiments carried out on the subject have proved , almost always , frustrating . |
| 18 | In experiments carried out on the land , crop yields of beet and clover were half of those on the field treated with manure . |
| 19 | Initially this left the larger machines , with consoles scattered around on the end of RS232 cables , somewhat behind . |
| 20 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 21 | The question is in the terms set out on the order paper . |
| 22 | Well , the main Control Room is , it 's the centre of all the communications set up on the operational side for the Fire Brigade . |
| 23 | Most important of all , back on the pitch I learnt which customers did n't pay their debts and so could never be allowed to have their names chalked up on the slate . |
| 24 | ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps . |
| 25 | Officers of the Imperial Guard and the servants lined up on the palace steps , weeping , to say goodbye . |
| 26 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 27 | The result of this is likely to be that close work will present few difficulties , but more distant visual tasks such as reading sentences written up on the blackboard will give problems . |
| 28 | Yes , they 're all the aways written out on the top B T shareholders , do you want this ? |
| 29 | As far as I could see , there were some eight or nine cottages strung out on a narrow road which circled the bay . |
| 30 | The letter also confirmed that " expropriations carried out on the basis of occupation law and occupation sovereignty ( 1945-49 ) [ could ] no longer be reversed " . |